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During his testimony before the commission, he said although Christianity has been present in Iraq from the "foundation" of the faith – ever since Thomas stopped off in Nineveh and converted the people of the city to Christianity – none of its historic tribulations compares to the troubles today.

What will it take to stop Islam from totally taking over the Middle East?

2 posted on 09/02/2007 1:46:25 PM PDT by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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What will it take to stop Islam from totally taking over the Middle East?

Armageddon and the return of Jesus Christ...

And they won't stop in the middle east...The U.S. of A. is in for some hard times...

6 posted on 09/02/2007 2:58:28 PM PDT by Iscool (OK, I'm Back...Now what were your other two wishes???)
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8 posted on 09/02/2007 5:13:14 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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What will it take to stop Islam from totally taking over the world (now that their oil money has enabled them to buy modern weaponry)?


9 posted on 09/02/2007 5:28:20 PM PDT by livius
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What will it take to stop Islam from totally taking over the Middle East?

Too late.
The Crusades failed. We aren't going to have another Crusades. The middle east is already 99% Muslim.

The middle east isn't the only place where Christians are persecuted. India persecutes Christians....but not Muslims. They don't persecute Muslims because THEY fight back. Thus, India has been experiencing religous warfare since the establishment of the Muslim Sultanate in 1209. It won't stop until India expels its Muslims, executes them all or ... whatever.

Fearing Islam is a problem. Having living in a Muslim country, I don't fear Islam.

- I fear communism (like China), athiests and secularists more. The communists have no morals other than what the State decrees.
- I fear athiests because God doesn't exist so moral absolutes are made up by themselves.
- I fear secularists because God doesn't belong in the public sector, that is, laws, culture...our lives.
EITHER one of those is frightening.

Satan thrives in those three cases, not in Islam.

However, Islam makes a wonderful boogeyman, whipping boy and place to blame all that's wrong in our world.
I also UNDERSTAND completely the fear people have of Islam. The Romans really feared Christians because of their willingness to DIE a horrible martyr's death for Jesus, the Lamb who gave up HIS life in a horrible martyr's death....for our sins. It's scary to see Islam's fanaticism, fervor and passion, even if it's only with a relatively few young fanatics.

China also persecutes their ever-growing Christian population. I read once that there are NOW more Protestants in China than there are in Europe. I don't know if that's true but Christianity's only "enemy" is itself. With 400 denomiations of Christians, it's hard to see any enemy outside of our own community.

10 posted on 09/03/2007 6:46:50 AM PDT by starfish923 (Socrates: It's never right to do wrong.)
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